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using a baby dummy or not the choice is yours what's your motif!

what's your motif ! using a baby dummy or not the choice is yours.

Not all babies especially the very tiny ones weighing 1 pound and upwards are born with the sucking reflex that full term babies have.In the First instance your baby may be born premature and need a Premature baby dummy.

As a mum you will be eager to have your tiny baby come home,and this is one area the NICU staff look towards getting baby feeding normally, before being allowed home . A premature baby dummy helps settle a baby undergoing tests even with tubes or c-pap up the nose . A premature baby dummy helps a baby develop the neccessary sucking reflex used in feeding from a bottle or the breast.

Once a baby has moved onto a size 0+ dummy mums may concider leaving baby with a dummy until age 3, 4 and up to 5 years of age.This isn't good for a number of  reasons.One a child becomes so attached to the dummy it is often to hard on mum to wean the child off at such a late age as this. The child will have had the use of a dummy from birth and will not want to part with it without being so distraught.

 The second reason is once a full set of teeth appear from around 12 months plus the dummy can start to pull the teeth into an abnormal possition if used too frequently.

Toddlers use a dummy as a comforter and even age 2 is difficult to get a toddler to break free from using one at this age.By the age of 3 years speach problems can occur with prolonged use of a dummy.this is one problem you just don't want to happen as your child in turn may need help from a speach therapist and the dentist to correct teeth.

By the age of 3 a parent will find it very hard to break the habit. What a mess imagine getting your child to believe santa took it, or the tooth fairy ,or the dog ate it so many lies to convince a child to part with it.Then there's the sleepless nights without it a child screaming,or dad nipping off to a certain shop to buy the exact teat shape because only a certain type will satisfy their child.

How to you get from baby dummy to none?

Concider your motif as a parent for giving a baby one in the first place (forget being premature) but a newborn at home.

Settling into a routine perhaps? a Screaming newborn baby that doesnt settle?

Once you baby is established into a routine reduce the number of times your baby has a dummy during the day. A cry is a sign of telling you your baby needs something. A bottle A Cuddle, A nappy changed.

listen to your child's cry instead of being tempted into putting a dummy in their mouth just to keep them quiet. At the first sign of a tooth start the weaning off process.

What alternatives can you use instead of a baby dummy?

1. A Comfort blanket If you only have one eventually it will wear out with many washes so have 2 .


2. Silkies - babies like the texture of silk fabric some teehing squares have silk material attached look for these on the internet under taggies.


3. Baby comforter in many forms usually a soft toy incoperating a small blanket a personal favourite as they are only small and a child can cuddle the soft and snuggly toy at the same time.A silk dressing gown as one little girl enjoyed yet got it dirty easily dragging it around with her every where.

For premature baby dummies visit the link below to shop for any type. http://cheekychumsonline.co.uk

About the Author

Qualified Baby +Early Years specialist.T.D.L.B D32+D33 Assessor.Proprietor of Cheeky Chums the Premature Baby Clothes SuperStore.  http://cheekychumsonline.co.uk,  resource site  http://www.premature-baby-clothes-store.co.uk

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Dolch Words: How Dummies Teach Reading

I never stop being amazed: some public schools are still pushing Sight Words and Dolch Words. This is highly irresponsible.

Whole Word rarely works. It expects children to memorize words as graphic designs, which is exceedingly difficult to do.

Please note, there is nothing special about our words that makes them easy to memorize. Memorizing 1000 sight-words is comparable to memorizing 1000 paintings, flags, cars, monuments, or movie stars. Indeed, memorizing English sight-words is probably more difficult than memorizing all these other categories of objects. 

I’m always trying to think up quick ways to explain this difficulty, especially to young parents. I believe I’ve got a good one here. As a thought experiment, let’s think of the 100 people you know best. We’ll put their pictures in a projector and flash them randomly on the screen at one per second. Do you think you will be able to name them at that pace? First names are good enough.

Keep in mind that we’re talking about only 100 names; these are the people you know best in the whole world; and presumably there are lots of differences to jar your memory--gender, age, hair color. And one per second is slower than reading speed. But I’ll bet you won’t be able to name those pictures, no, not even for a minute or two. 

Memory is capricious. A person you know can come into the room, and your mind goes blank. You turn to somebody and say, “Uh, you know, that guy in accounting...What’s his name?” Happens all the time, right? But during those blank seconds, a lot of pictures flash by.

Now let’s suppose it’s not your favorite 100 people, it’s just 100 people. And you have to memorize their names to the point where you have instant recall of 100 strangers. Doesn’t that sound like a tremendous amount of work? But this is basically the task thrown at little children in first grade, when they are shown their first Dolch List.

Do you know what happens? Many children master the material only in a half-baked way, but the teachers pretend the students can “read” and pass them along. Many children just give up, because very quickly it becomes evident that 100 words is only the beginning. The teachers clearly expect this process to go on and on and on.

So now, to put this in the terms of the thought experiment, suppose you have to memorize the names of 500 strangers, then 1,000 strangers... Seriously, do you think you could do this? Ever? Or you would even attempt to do this?

Bottom line, if you have a photographic memory, you might be able to do it. But no ordinary child could. And 1,000 is still only the BEGINNING. Basic literacy in English requires that you know at least 5,000 to 10,000 words. 

Do you have some sense now of how hopeless this project is? Even if you could memorize a few hundred names per year, you would still be illiterate all the way through high school.

Meanwhile, children who learn Phonics can read real books in the second and third grades. Phonics is basically a big bag of mnemonic devices to help you recognize what you are looking at. To put it in the terms of our thought experiment, it’s as if our photographs have initials in the corner  or nicknames or post-it notes. The memory needs all the help it can get.

 Whole Word is impractical because it relies 100% on information you can retain indefinitely in your brain. You are always on your own, whether it’s a picture of that old friend from high school or a new word such as fahitw. You have the names in your brain or you don’t. Phonics might be described as user-friendly--there are lots of clues and reminders to help you along. Whole Word is user-hostile. It’s a method, I’m convinced, perpetrated by insensitive dummies.

For a printable chart comparing the claims of the competing methods, please see 37: Whole Word versus Phonics on Improve-Education.org.

About the Author

Bruce Price, an author and artist, is waging a personal campaign to improve education in America. His flagship is

Improve-Education.org. Also see "30: The War Against Reading."

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